its been a while since I messed with grass. I took some time to check the mailing list archives and maybe missed the mails pertaining to my start up problem. I installed grass on opendarwin-7.2.1 which is a "value added" version of darwin for ppc (i.e. no Mac OS X proprietary parts to it like Aqua). First I used a less well know port system called darwinports instead of fink, to install fftw, proj, gdal, and postgresql. Then I downloaded the lastest tar.gz from the grass website. ./configure, make and make install, went fine w/o any problems. So after I typed "grass60" I get the usual greetings and "....Hit return". Then I get the dialog box where I can choose an existing mapset or create a location etc. So I choose to make a new location and then I get the map and then nothing. I'm at the grass prompt with some errors about not being able to make a location. Any help? I have tried Lorenzo's package. The only problem is that I get much the same start up problems and then his package uses "veclib" which I guess is a proprietary lib from apple. I'm not interested in purchasing panther and it won't run on my old ibook but opendarwin will and does nicely. I run ps and I see the init.sh is running. So My info is: XDarwin from XFree86 (binary install), window manager = tab window manager (no frills), called from rxvt, on opendarwin-7.2.1 running on a 7 yearold g3 ibook (clamshell). I've used fink to install grass before but it didn't do well and the grass from the darwinports is not existent anymore. Should I go for 5.4 or something? or is there a way to make do with what I got?
its been a while since I messed with grass. I took some time to check
the mailing list archives and maybe missed the mails pertaining to my
start up problem. I installed grass on opendarwin-7.2.1 which is a
"value added" version of darwin for ppc (i.e. no Mac OS X proprietary
parts to it like Aqua). First I used a less well know port system
called darwinports instead of fink, to install fftw, proj, gdal, and
postgresql. Then I downloaded the lastest tar.gz from the grass
website. ./configure, make and make install, went fine w/o any
problems. So after I typed "grass60" I get the usual greetings and
"....Hit return". Then I get the dialog box where I can choose an
existing mapset or create a location etc. So I choose to make a new
location and then I get the map and then nothing. I'm at the grass
prompt with some errors about not being able to make a location. Any
help? I have tried Lorenzo's package. The only problem is that I get
much the same start up problems and then his package uses "veclib"
which I guess is a proprietary lib from apple. I'm not interested in
purchasing panther and it won't run on my old ibook but opendarwin
will and does nicely. I run ps and I see the init.sh is running. So
My info is: XDarwin from XFree86 (binary install), window manager =
tab window manager (no frills), called from rxvt, on opendarwin-7.2.1
running on a 7 yearold g3 ibook (clamshell). I've used fink to
install grass before but it didn't do well and the grass from the
darwinports is not existent anymore. Should I go for 5.4 or
something? or is there a way to make do with what I got?
a) try the 6.0.0 release instead of the latest CVS. In the last week or
two there have been several changes to the GUI to make it more aqua
compatible. It's likely things are not 100% yet.
b) when you click "create new location" control switches over to the
terminal shell window, but nothing tells you this is happening. So if
your terminal shell is minimized at that point you never know..
c) try starting in text mode: 'grass60 -text' and then from the GRASS>
prompt start a monitor with 'd.mon x0' and then the GUI with 'd.m &'.